Microposts

🎧 I’ve made a few updates to my default apps. I’m now using Overcast for podcasts (again) and Albums for music.

Both replace Apple’s default apps, which prioritize new content over easy access to media I’ve already selected—presumably what I actually want to listen to.

The recent rewrite of Overcast’s Apple Watch app was the tipping point for the podcast switch. Most of my podcast listening happens on the Watch, and the new app is a big improvement.

Another fun analysis in The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland, this time of Mad Max style warfare

This week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic, because – as the saying goes – amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. So we’re going to be professionally silly this week and talk about the logistics of vehicle warfare in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting, in part because this is a good way to also think about why militaries (of various description) use the vehicles they use, from a logistics standpoint.

Based on the first two episodes, I like the new Murderbot show. I think it has the right amount of quirkiness to capture the tone of the books

Finished reading: The Crisis of Canadian Democracy by Andrew Coyne has plenty of evidence to make you mad about the state of Canadian democracy, along with many ideas about how to fix it. The trick is to get a political party to do something about the problems 📚

Finished reading: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell is a fun exploration of what makes things spread (ideas, behaviours, viruses). You know what you’re in for with Gladwell and this is a good follow up to The Tipping Point (25 years later!) 📚

A new feature in HealthFit shows that I’ve been pushing the training too hard. A better balance would be 80% in low aerobic. Although I feel okay, I’ll fit in more recovery runs and rides

Training load focus from April 4 to May 1, 2025, displays 8% anaerobic, 59% high aerobic, and 34% low aerobic activities.

🇨🇦 Great piece by Paul Wells: Solomon’s vote

The Liberals won. Mark Carney returns as prime minister. He’ll get to name another cabinet, meet Parliament for the first time, govern if he can. But the result forecloses cheap gloating in ways I find satisfying. Canada is a country that wishes things were easy. Maybe they aren’t meant to be easy.

🚴 Planning for the first outdoor bike ride of the season tomorrow. So, wandering the house trying to find all the gear. Note to self for next year: put it all together in a box for storage

Finished reading: Orbital by Samantha Harvey is enthralling. Nothing much happens and yet so much about humanity, science, and our place in the universe is explored 📚